Thursday, August 14, 2008

The NHL Winter Classic is only one of the more than 300 nationally televised games the League announced Thursday in unveiling the national TV broadcast schedules for 2008-09 for NBC, CBC, RDS, VERSUS and TSN.

In Canada, TSN will be showing 70 regular season games and Hockey Night in Canada will have 69. TSN is showing an incredible six preseason games and all of its regular season contests will feature at least one Canadian team.

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TSN is showing an incredible six preseason games and all of its regular season contests will feature at least one Canadian team.

Both of those are shifts in direction, aren't they? That's too bad about exclusively featuring Canadian teams... they did a good job showing all US matchups and now there is no place to watch them on a main sports network in Canada. And it just ramps up the cheerleading of Canadian franchises in the Canadian media that much more.

I did enjoy TSN broadcasting big time rivalries like Philly vs. Pittsburgh. I'm assuming the soon to be launched TSN2 will carry these types of games now, but I have no idea how widely available that network will be.

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